Horror is a woman’s genre, and it has been all the way back to the oldest horror novel still widely read today: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, daughter of pioneering feminist author Mary Wollstonecraft...
She had nothing. Except her music.
She didn’t expect life to be fair, but did it have to be so relentless?
Of course, every mother thinks her baby is perfect, but at some point, as her home fills with dead bodies, she has to face facts and admit that the fruit of her womb is a face-eating beast spawned fro...
Kris had been alive long enough to know it was dangerous when men accused you of being better than them.
Johnstone piles incident on incident, trope on trope, and if something isn’t working he keeps on piling. When time itself needs to be brought to a screeching halt, Jay Clute just pulls out his gun and...
It's April 1988 and the world belongs to them.
Friend is a word whose sharp corners have been worn smooth by overuse.
In Brain Watch (1985), superpsychic powers are the result of splitting a doctor’s noggin into a quadruple brain, unlocking his ability to project illusions, become superstrong, and control the pigment...
We’re getting out of here, she said. The store will try to stop us. It’ll disorient you, get inside your head, try to confuse you and control you. But if you stay focused, you can block it out. You ha...
That was her nature. Fail and quit. If you cut her open, it was fail and quit right down to her bones.
Abby and Gretchen still kept up, but it was phone calls and letters, then postcards and voicemail, and finally emails and Facebook likes. There was no falling-out, no great tragedy, just a hundred tho...
Here was the other option: the tranquilizing chair. It was always waiting for her. It always wanted her back. It always wanted her to quit again, to sit down and never get back up.In the end, Amy thou...
The problem was the liars. They said she could do anything she set her mind to, they told her she should shoot for the moon because if she missed she’d be among the stars, they made movies tricking he...
Some of you seniors may have seen this at parties, said Coach Greene, standing at the podium in front of the upper school assembly, holding a green glass bottle. The manufacturer calls it ‘Bartles and...
Everyone plays for someone, and Kris didn't play for the big dogs like Sabbath and Zep, she didn't play for the ones who made it, for the wizards who figured out how to turn their music into cars and...
Brother Lemon and Abby looked at each other, eyes gleaming in the shadows, and then he stood up. Rummaging in one of his duffle bags, he pulled out an athletic cup and slid it down the front of his pa...
Wasting food is no joke! he’d shout. That’s how Karen Carpenter died!
All over Russia, bears were depressed. The Yeti were moving west. This was due to global warming, but the bears hadn’t gone to university so they didn’t understand the bigger picture. All they knew wa...
All great works must begin with a sacrifice.
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